About Blake Shaw

I am a photographer based in San Diego. I now specialize in bird photography, but also regularly photograph scenes of Mexico, Route 66, tennis, bicycle racing, flowers, and people. My work hangs in galleries in San Diego and elsewhere, and I am available for slide shows, lectures, and exhibitions.

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Oaxaca is a great place to experience fantastic food. One staple of Oaxaca is the Tlayuda, which consists of a large fried tortilla, bean paste, Oaxacan cheese, tomato, avocado, and a choice of meats, often tasado, seen here, which is a type of flank steak. I ate this one at one of many food stalls at the central market of Oaxaca City. Delicious!

February 23, 2015

February 22, 2015

As a tourist in a town like Oaxaca City, there will always be street vendors eager to peddle their wares to you. Here a man visits me, uninvited, as I await my breakfast. He was selling small rugs woven in the nearby town of Teotilán del Valle. Unfortunately, he did not make a sale.

February 20, 2015

A young salesgirl in the town of Mitla, Oaxaca, gives a look of mild consternation. Mitla is known for its fabrics, made into curtains, shirts, dresses, or blouses.

This, as well as a number of other candid street photos I took in Oaxaca was shot with an iPhone. Since a large percentage of people in public walk with their faces glued to their iPhones, people take much less notice of someone looking at an iPhone than someone pointing a large SLR camera in their direction, making it perhaps the ideal camera for street photography.